This is satire.

Always wondered what a satire duel looked like.
Now I know, and would never engage in one.
The duo of Haywood and Hart are just too good.
Us lesser mortals need to put *satire* tags around our bumbling attempts.

Wanders off to domestic duties making mental list…

too loose?

You better asrk dyan. I'm just a home body.

Oh yes, all very hilarious until one of us winds up possessed by the spirit of Ayn Rand, Margaret Thatcher or Marie Antoinette....
...I cant for the life of me figure out what you think those 3 women have in common.

I know, I know, ask me...…

a reputation for being unable to tell the difference between a social contract, a social construct and opportunism.

Thanks for the social advice, I'd rather stay at home.

So I take it you are serious?
I cant for the life of me figure out what you think those 3 women have in common.

Andin, if you take this for a serious discourse you need to get out more. This is satire.

Those 3 women have in common a…

Oh I get it now ..your playing Devils Advocate.
Very funny... I ......think.

Oh yes, all very hilarious until one of us winds up possessed by the spirit of Ayn Rand, Margaret Thatcher or Marie Antoinette.

but I must defer to my greater hero, Paula Bennet.

Oh I get it now ..your playing Devils Advocate.
Very funny... I ......think.

This is a deeply insightful observation, Dyan — comparable, I think, with the work of the great philosophers at the peak of their powers.

Oh, why thank you Prof Haywood, but I must defer to my greater hero, Paula Bennet. When she, as a tiny child was holding her family's…

"WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME??"
Have either of you asked that question lately? No, I didn't think so. And that would be why you are neither super-heroes, nor are you friends with the famous Phar Lap. You will never be anything more than Poets, Scientists and other…

You will never be anything more than Poets, Scientists and other dreary things that don't inspire great things.

Quite right. I'm so f*%king bored.

And Poets

But: Scyence and Inginears

And dreary things And how to spice it up a bit

enjoy:

Ms Bennett and her horsey...

immortalised:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzcAWlF3okA

the need for stable government

Farmer Brown and friends:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyVDUVJvDlM…

Ms Bennett and her horsey may soon be required to trample a few dreams in another hemisphere. All three losers of the British general election are blathering about the need for stable government.

Mr Challinor, I admire you as a poet but I see you are unaware of the nature…

All three losers of the British general election are blathering about the need for stable government.

Well they have the Straw men for it...
or were they talking about Animal Farm?
3 legs, Good? Bad?

Also if they want to bale the country out,
it's no great shift from stable…

Saunders? Saunders? Are you there??

interestingly the article was written by a Bennett too – but one wouldn't expect Paula to know him from Adam, either ...

This IS Life imitating Hayward!!!!

Oh Paula, how can they afford you? Maybe one should question her "home help" in the office.

Saunders? Saunders? Are you there??

There has to be a "Phar Lap and Me" sequel here . Surely!

needless to say that I am always in awe of the mindboggling and limerickaliciously talented Philip Challinor

Statements like that are never needless.

I think a regular column of "Paula's Tips" would be very well received.

We have one already, surely: Respect The Process.

When your brain is all bent
You're no longer Clark Kent
You're a superhero
That's when I'll come along
With my mad little…

She can't be a superhero, she doesn't have a cape.

Oh, I wouldn't rule that out.

You wouldn't ever think of taking to the trots*,
I suppose?
* I used to think they had something to do
with Trotsky.

..introducing... MisterRed!
a hoarse reddish source...
of course!

When the the drink stops working
then finally the dram is over...

don't dream it, be…

* I used to think they had something to do with Trotsky.

She can't be a superhero, she doesn't have a cape.

Watch The Incredibles for the reason for this.

Phar Lap says he's the reincarnation of Judith Collins

I am sure the resemblence is with the teeth. But I could be swayed....

It's hard work but I must say that I'm very happy, and I wouldn't swap jobs with anyone.

Hehe. I read that first as "I wouldn't swab…

Many thanks for your interview with Paula Bennett. I have found it very helpful.

But I wonder what a physicist would make of it — because, frankly, some of it sounds a bit unlikely!

On another note, I think a regular column of "Paula's Tips" would be…

And apparently John Denver was singing 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' as he dropped towards the ocean — such a tragedy!

I think is was probably more likely to be Jackson Brown's "Running on Empty".

A lady at Cabinet table...

Okay, now I'm getting jealous.

Wait, she has Charisma too?

Silly Emma, of course she has Charisma too, you just don't see that Paula is a superhero now that she's all finished being a beneficiary herself. She was able to to pull herself up by her own bootstraps.

Beneficiaries can straighten up and succeed like…

her bonhomie, fun and charisma

Wait, she has Charisma too?

I am of course going to think of this every time we drive past that statue now.

I think you're giving Paula way too much credit.

No, you just don't recognise a crusader when you see one. If you could all stop mocking Paula and let her get on with crushing beneficiaries and their dependents and stop whining about boring things that aren't about her bonhomie, fun…

Together, the horsey and Paula
Made one ectoplasmical mauler
Which hissed at the team:
"It's the end of the dream!"
While they thought of some…

PB gets nothing but abuse in our house, and neither of us are beneficiaries.

Crunching like strawberry boxes.

I love the soundscape this image produces!

I had decided not to run it at all, but then realized how keen many people would be to find out…